Sorek

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sorek
     choice vine, the name of a valley, i.e., a torrent-bed, now the
     Wady Surar, "valley of the fertile spot," which drains the
     western Judean hills, and flowing by Makkedah and Jabneel, falls
     into the sea some eight miles south of Joppa. This was the home
     of Deliah, whom Samson loved (Judg. 16:4).


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sorek, vine; hissing; a color inclining to yellow